June 6, 2024 - Reflections on “Dancing with the Devil; 7M TicTok Cult” on Netflix

I have just finished watching the series “Dancing with the Devil; 7M TicTok Cult” that is currently on Netflix.  It is about young people that get involved with a cult and its devasting effects on them.

I grew up in a deeply religious household.  My father believed in ghosts, demons, the devil, and the rapture.  The rapture is an event that God would take all his good people up to heaven and let the ones left behind suffer in a demonic, hellish world.  As a young child I was horrified of this!  I was horrified of going to hell! As a result, I was a very compliant child.  I kept all my negative opinions and my angry to myself.  My father use to snore and when I was a child, it comforted me to hear him snore.  That means that the rapture did not happen because most certainly God would take my dad.  Sometimes if I didn’t hear my dad snore, I would go check on them. 

When my grandmother died, I asked my father if she would be in heaven.  With a straight face he said, “I don’t think so, she didn’t go to church.”  This completed devasted and terrified me.  I started having nightmares about a demon or ghost grandma!  I was so scared.

I was very compliant with the church as a young adult.  I took their opinions as truth.  I didn’t trust myself.  I completed understand how young people could join a cult.  I completed sympathize.

These people who run cults should be in jail and the police should take the victim’s charges seriously.